ProfessorAronWalsh

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Chair in Materials Design

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2.10Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Aron Walsh is a Full Professor and Fellow of the RSC in the Department of Materials. He leads the Materials Design Group at Imperial College and holds a dual Underwood Distinguished Professorship at Yonsei University, Korea.

Aron was awarded his PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He then worked for the US Department of Energy at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), followed by a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by University College London, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship held at the University of Bath.

His research involves cutting-edge materials theory and simulation applied to problems across solid-state chemistry and physics, including materials for solar cells and fuels, batteries, thermoelectrics, and solid-state lighting. He has an expertise in the theory of semiconductors and dielectrics, and is developing innovative solutions for materials data, informatics and design. His group published a review on machine learning for molecules and materials in Nature.

These activities have been supported by funding from the Royal Society, EPSRC, ERC, Horizon2020, and the Faraday Institution.

In 2015, Aron was awarded the EU-40 prize from the European Materials Research Society and the Chemistry Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship for his work on the theory of next-generation perovskite photovoltaics. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2019, he received the Corday-Morgan Prize from the RSC for his breakthrough research on hybrid organic-inorganic solids.

Aron features in the Highly Cited Researchers list. A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.

Scientific Editor

Royal Society of Chemistry: Materials Horizons

Editorial Advisory Boards

American Chemical Society: ACS Energy Letters

Institute of Physics: JPhys Energy

Royal Society of Chemistry: Sustainable Energy & Fuels

American Institute of Physics: APL Materials

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Journals

Davies DW, Savory CN, Frost JM, et al.Davies DW, Savory CN, Frost JM, Scanlon DO, Morgan BJ, Walsh A close, 2020, Descriptors for Electron and Hole Charge Carriers in Metal Oxides, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol:11, ISSN:1948-7185, Pages:438-444

Yang RX, Skelton JM, da Silva EL, et al.Yang RX, Skelton JM, da Silva EL, Frost JM, Walsh A close, 2020, Assessment of dynamic structural instabilities across 24 cubic inorganic halide perovskites., J Chem Phys, Vol:152

Khenkin MV, Katz EA, Abate A, et al.Khenkin MV, Katz EA, Abate A, Bardizza G, Berry JJ, Brabec C, Brunetti F, Bulovic V, Burlingame Q, Di Carlo A, Cheacharoen R, Cheng Y-B, Colsmann A, Cros S, Domanski K, Dusza M, Fell CJ, Forrest SR, Galagan Y, Di Girolamo D, Graetzel M, Hagfeldt A, von Hauff E, Hoppe H, Kettle J, Koebler H, Leite MS, Liu SF, Loo Y-L, Luther JM, Ma C-Q, Madsen M, Manceau M, Matheron M, McGehee M, Meitzner R, Nazeeruddin MK, Nogueira AF, Odabasi C, Osherov A, Park N-G, Reese MO, De Rossi F, Saliba M, Schubert US, Snaith HJ, Stranks SD, Tress W, Troshin PA, Turkovic V, Veenstra S, Visoly-Fisher I, Walsh A, Watson T, Xie H, Yildirim R, Zakeeruddin SM, Zhu K, Lira-Cantu M close, 2020, Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures, Nature Energy, Vol:5, ISSN:2058-7546, Pages:35-49

Morita K, Park J-S, Kim S, et al.Morita K, Park J-S, Kim S, Yasuoka K, Walsh A close, 2019, Crystal Engineering of Bi2WO6 to Polar Aurivillius-Phase Oxyhalides, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol:123, ISSN:1932-7447, Pages:29155-29161

Davies D, Savory C, Frost JM, et al.Davies D, Savory C, Frost JM, Scanlon D, Morgan B, Walsh A close, 2019, Descriptors for Electron and Hole Charge Carriers in Metal Oxides

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